Solti Centenary Concert
This DVD features the Solti Concert in Chicago which celebrated Sir Georg Solti’s 100th birthday on October 21, 2012. The World Orchestra for Peace owes its existence to the vision of its founder, Sir Georg Solti, who believed passionately in peace and the power of music and musicians to be ambassadors for peace.
The memorial concert was hosted by Solti’s widow, Lady Valerie Solti, and featuring soloists such as Angela Gheorghiu and René Pape, as well as members of the Georg Solti Accademia.
Besides excerpts from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni or Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto, this concert includes wonderful musical moments such as the ‘Adagietto’ from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Strauss’ Don Juan and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.
Here’s a list of the specific pieces:
Live recording from Symphony Center, Chicago, 2012
Bartók:
- Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116
Mahler:
- Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor – Adagietto
Mozart:
- In diesen heil’gen Hallen (from Die Zauberflöte)
- Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture
- La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Sousa:
- The Stars and Stripes Forever, (encore)
Strauss, R:
- Don Juan, Op. 20
Verdi:
- Addio del passato (from La Traviata)
- Bella figlia dell’amore (from Rigoletto)
Performed by Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (soprano), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz (tenor) & Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
And with members of the Georg Solti Accademia and the World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Valery Gergiev
Here is a video of the Bartok Concerto for orchestra, with a brief introduction by Solti:
And next, here’s a brief section from a wonderful “Le Nozze di Figaro” conducted by Georg Solti at Paris Opera in 1980.
Tags: Georg Solti memorial concert, Mozart, Verdi, Bartok, Mahler, Lady Solti, World Orchestra for Peace